RE: WG Last Call:draft-ietf-smime-cms-07.txt

Bill:

Are we alking about the same sentence?  It looks okay to me.

For the signature to be valid, the message digest value calculated by the recipient must be the same as the value of the messageDigest attribute included in the signedAttributes of the signedData signerInfo.

Russ

At 04:17 PM 11/3/98 -0500, Flanigan, Bill wrote:
>I have another "minor" request.  The last sentence of
the second paragraph
>in Section 5.6 seems to be particularly convoluted--like nested
eggs.  How
>would this process REALLY work in determining if the signature is
valid?
>Perhaps some wordsmithing as well as breaking the sentence up into
two might
>help.  Any thoughts anyone? 
>
>Bill
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Re: WG Last
Call:draft-ietf-smime-cms-07.txt
>> 
>> >One minor request, would it be possible to include a short
example of
>> data
>> >wrapped up with each CMS content-type at the end of the
draft (data,
>> >encryptedData, etc)?  This would help solve some of the
"we thought you
>> were
>> >supposed to interpret the text this way" problems which
have come up, and
>> >provide useful test vectors for implementors.
>> 
>> I would second this request, even if it delays the drafts a bit.
From
>> Jim's
>> previous message, it is clear that the few people implementing
right now
>> are not 100% on track on this.
>> 
>> Russ, can you add these? Or, if anyone else can provide them
quicker, that
>> would be wonderful.
>> 
>> --Paul Hoffman, Director
>> --Internet Mail Consortium